Socially Responsible Investing: How Small Investors Can Drive Change

From Quaker prohibitions on slave trading, to boycotts of firms doing business in apartheid South Africa, to analyzing corporate carbon emissions, Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) has come a long way. In a panel session called “SRI 3.0: the Evolution of Socially Responsible Investing” at the 2011 Net Impact Conference , a group of SRI experts discussed how they evaluate firms, how investors can learn more about corporate sustainability (and avoid greenwashing), and how you as a small shareholder can actually change corporate behavior.